The opportunity
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires effective engagement with public policy stakeholders and the broader community impacted by AI.
What you'll do
Own a focused workstream plan for core agent identity, discovery, and: delegated-authorization standards, with adjacent agentic-commerce, web-access, provenance, and auditability work assigned through portfolio prioritization.
Recommend where OpenAI should lead, shape, monitor, oppose, or decline to: participate within the assigned workstream, based on technical maturity, governance quality, strategic leverage, implementation readiness, and company priorities.
Develop technical standards positions and normative contributions that: preserve distinctions among the human or service principal, agent, workload or runtime, task, session, resource, and policy decision.
Shape requirements for scoped delegation, attenuation, step-up approval,: revocation, credential custody, runtime binding, discovery, interoperability, agent-specific provenance, and auditable action trails.
Embed with Agent Security and Applied or Platform teams to translate internal: architecture and controls into technically credible specifications, profiles, white papers, and assurance evidence without overstating maturity or deployment status.
Lead review and approval paths across Product, Security, Engineering, Legal,: GRC, Global Affairs, and GTM; maintain clear mandates, red lines, owners, dependencies, and external commitments.
What they're looking for
- Represent OpenAI in priority venues and coalitions, such as IETF and: OAuth-related work, FIDO, OIDF, W3C, AAIF, and relevant NIST or ISO efforts; build trust with peer companies, standards operators, and public-sector stakeholders.
- Bring external standards intelligence back into product, security,: compliance, and go-to-market decisions early enough to shape roadmaps and avoid retrofit, launch, procurement, or market-access friction.
- Contribute reusable playbooks, decision records, contribution patterns, and: handoffs that reduce key-person risk across the assigned workstream.
- Have strong experience in technical standards, internet protocols, identity: and access, security architecture, applied cryptography, or closely related product or infrastructure work.
